I don't like religion. No, it's true, I seriously don't.
You may think it's because of all the crazy bomb wielding maniacs out there (or so we are told), and yes that Is a reason to not like religion, but it is not mine.
My biggest beef with religion is that it is, by any meaningful definition of the word, simply not true. It is myth and legend, off the wall crack-pottery wrapped up in horrific moral turpitude and oft misogynistic social control. And I'm not just talking Christianity here. No I mean the whole drop-dead crazy, put the money in the collection tin on your way out circus of religious wing-battery. All of them. Every last one!
And what's worse is that there are many, many millions of otherwise rational people who accept all this crazy without batting an eyelid. They take it in their stride, and without the slightest trace of irony or questioning hold it all as absolute truth.
These people will look at the claims of rival religions and scoff, laughing these competing theologies off the page as ridiculous, patently false, and yet absolutely fail to understand how someone could ever paint their religion with the same brush. This is even more tragically hilarious when members of the big three monotheistic religions deride each-other's beliefs when it is abundantly clear they are worshiping the same god!.
It is the insidious way religions go out of their way to promote ignorance and rejection of demonstrable fact in favour of their oft re-hashed and warmed-over bronze age mythology reengineered as social engineering.
There is little surprise as education levels decrease in the USA that the religiosity of that nation grows. Ignorance and poor education and the quelling of inquisitive minds go hand in hand with the propagation of misinformation, propaganda and the flat out lies that is religion.
It is that religions teach their adherents that ignorance, rather than something to recognise and correct, is something to be cherished and lauded, that it is virtuous!
And those are just some of the reasons I dont like religion.
